Magwhich says to Pip ‘I’ll have your heart and liver out’ if Pip doesn’t bring him food and stuff. Pip is in fear of Magwhich and is in fear of his sister because she might catch him robbing the pantry.
In chapter two Pip says that his sister had bought him up by hand. Pips sister says to Pip ‘if it wasn’t for me you’d have been in the churchyard a long time ago’. This is true because in those days (Dickens times) orphaned children had to look after themselves. Pip was lucky to have a home and someone to look after him.
Dickens also uses Mrs Joe to make the reader feel sympathetic towards Pip. Joe tells Pip that Mrs Joe ‘rampaged out’ looking for Pip with ‘tickler’ (in other words Mrs Joe is going to beat Pip). Mrs Joe says ‘why did I bring you up by hand’ etc. Pip probably feels no love, which also makes you feel sorry for him. The language Mrs Joe gives Pip is not loving.
While Pip and him family are eating Christmas dinner the grown ups tell Pip he should be grateful and that he has been a lot of trouble, which makes the reader feel sorry for Pip.
Pip gets an invitation to go and play at Miss Havishams house. Mrs Joe is very excited because in those days it was very uncommon for common people such as Pip to meet or talk to more upper class , wealthy people such as Miss Havisham. Therefore it was a great honour for Pip to meet Miss Havisham. Miss Havishams and Pips backgrounds are very different. Pip and Mrs Havishams social backgrounds are very different. Pip is from a poor family and has not really had much love. Mrs Havisham has grown up in a rich family and was in love but her fiancé left her on the day of their wedding. I think that one thing Pip and Mrs Havisham have in common is that they both want to be loved.
When Pip first goes to Satis House the setting is green, big, spashus, overgrown, and there are birds singing. Pip sees Satis House as very big. Pip as the narrator says ‘we came to Miss Havishams house, which was of old bricks, and dismal and had a great many iron bars to it’. At this stage the reader feels sorry for Pip because he is going into a strange house all alone and he doesn’t no how hw should acquit himself in the house.
When Pip first sees Mrs Havisham he (as the narrator) describes her very well. When Pip first sees Mrs Havisham he as the narrator says ‘sat the strangest lady I have every seen’. Mrs Havisham speaks to Pip normally as a friend but sometimes she speaks to him, as he should do what he is told.
Mrs Havisham asks Pip what he thinks about Estella Pip says ‘I think she is very proud’ and he says ‘I think she is very pretty’ and he also says ‘I think she is very insulting’. Estella makes Pip feel stupid. She is the person who makes him relies he is common and poor, and from then he decides one day he wants to be a gentleman. Estella is always calling Pip ‘boy’. She also says to him ‘your nothing but a stupid clumsy labouring boy’ Estella’s words really hurt Pip because he is falling in love with her, which makes the reader feel sorry for Pip.